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Re: alarm(3) bug?



On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:15:50 +0200
Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost> wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, enh wrote:
> > the user-observable difference between glibc/POSIX and NetBSD is 
> > for alarm(0xffffffff).
> 
> 0xffffffff seconds is about 136 years.  I suggest that 
> you avoid trying to pass such long timeouts to the 
> alarm function.

As an aside, if you genuinely need your process to run for 136 years
you may also run into portability issues regarding the size of time_t.

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3072D/F3A66B3A Julian Yon (2012 General Use) <pgp.2012%jry.me@localhost>

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